Web diagnostics

XML sitemap checker

Inspect a public sitemap.xml or sitemap index and quickly verify its structure, entry count and sample URLs.

Quick guide

What IPGetter validates here

This checker verifies that the response is readable XML and that the document root is either a standard urlset or sitemapindex. It also counts entries and shows a small sample so obvious formatting mistakes are easy to spot.

For safety and speed, IPGetter inspects sitemap responses up to 5 MB. Very large production sitemaps should normally be split behind a sitemap index anyway.

urlset

Contains page URLs directly, optionally with metadata such as lastmod.

sitemapindex

Contains links to other sitemap files.

lastmod

Optional hint describing when a URL or child sitemap was last modified.

How it works

The sitemap XML is fetched and parsed as either a URL set or sitemap index. IPGetter checks the structure, counts entries and shows a sample of the published URLs.

Useful when
  • Confirming a sitemap is valid XML
  • Checking how many URLs it contains
  • Spotting obviously wrong or stale sitemap entries
Terminal shortcut

Prefer the command line?

Inspect a public XML sitemap from the Terminal.

> sitemap example.com Run in Terminal ->